News & Notes

In a recent podcast put out by the good guys over at JavaPosse, Brian Goetz made an interesting comment near the end

JavaFX code compiles down to ordinary Java classes, so a simple JavaFX program can run anywhere you have a JVM. now hardware support for acceleration is different for different devices, but the intention is to have a program that will run on a phone, on a desktop, on an Applet, in a Blueray device, anywhere where Java can run. Flash dominates in the RIA space and there is excellent support in Windows, and pretty good support on the mac, and random support on other platforms. Java has the advantage where there is good JVM support on many more platforms, including mobile platforms. ~ Brian Goetz

If having your application work mobile and on the desktop and in the browser matters to you, I feel this will be a big consideration for you when choosing your RIA platform

I think web 3.0 is going to be about the real time web. XMPP is going to play a major role in this movement… ~ Ezra Zygmuntowicz

I found this quote in an article up on InfoQ discussing EngineYards ‘backbone’ work in Cloud Computing. They are developing a new platform called Vertebra that will use Erlang and Ruby to ‘automate the cloud as well as distribute real time application development’. It sounds like Vertebra will be both a deployment tool and a back end messaging platform, using XMPP. XMPP is the messaging protocol used by the Jabber community.

This is exciting stuff, especially when Ezra mentioned that they will be open sourcing their technology. Imagine if hosting providers could standardize on one distribution platform whereby work could be passed along beyond institutional borders. One hitch may be billing, but I don’t think so. The math behind atomic charge-backs has already been calculated by the phone industry, a model they have always operated under.

Real Time Web. It makes more sense to me than a semantic web as far as a web 3.0 stake in the ground.